All new patients are invited to make an appointment to have a health check with our practice nurse.
Register With Us
To register with us, please check you live within our catchment area; you can do this using the map below.
Once you have ensured you live within our boundary, please complete the online ‘New Patient Registration’ form.
- Medical treatment is available from the date of registration. If you are on medication, you will need to speak to a doctor before a prescription can be issued.
Alternatively you can register at the practice by printing and completing a New Patient Registration Form, a New Patient Health Questionnaire and a Summary Care Record Preference Form, which will provide useful information whilst we wait for your medical records to arrive from your previous doctor.
Once completed these can either be posted to us, emailed, or dropped into our post box outside the surgery.
New patient packs are also available for collection from both Crediton, and our Thorverton branch site.
Practice Area
If you would like to check whether you are resident within our Practice area and so eligible to register with us a Practice then please enter your postcode below.
Out of area registrations
To clarify, we are still accepting new patients who live within our catchment area; the only patients we are not currently accepting are those who live outside of our catchment area. To view our catchment area and check whether you live within it please use the catchment area tool above or speak to a member of staff. If you live within our catchment area and wish to register you will be most welcome.
Catchment Area
Temporary Patient Registrations
If you will be living within our practice boundary for a maximum of 3 months, you may register as a temporary patient.
Please contact your practice in the first instance and only contact us to register if they decide you need to be seen. If this happens, please call the practice on 01363 727111, or come into reception.
If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a Doctor but need to see one, you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP Practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.
You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local Practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that Practice.
You can download the Temporary Services Form here: Temporary Services Registration
Overseas Visitors
Those who visit the UK from overseas must pay for their care when they are in England.
In 2015 changes were made to how the NHS charges overseas visitors for healthcare so the NHS does not lose out on income for the services these patients have received.
Find Your NHS Number
Sometimes when filling in online forms or speaking with our staff, you may be asked for your NHS number.
This online tool will help you find your number if you do not know it.
Please Note
You do not need to know your NHS number to use NHS services, but it can be useful to have it.
Other ways to get your NHS number
If you cannot get your NHS number online you can:
- find it on any letter from the NHS like a prescription or appointment letter
- call your GP surgery and ask them for your number
Non-English Speakers
These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.
Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.
Open the leaflets in one of the following languages:
The National Care Record Service (NCRS)
Important information regarding your NHS medical records – Summary Care Record
The National Care Record Service (NCRS) is the way in which health professionals now access the Summary Care Record (SCR). The SCR has not changed, it is just the way SCRs are accessed that has changed.
For more information about NCRS please see: National Care Records Service.
Information for patients who wish to opt out of having a summary care record, including an opt out form is available here: Opting out.
Organ Donation
From 2020, adults in England will be considered potential donors unless they choose to opt out or are excluded. For more information please visit the Organ Donation NHS UK where you can also register your decision.
Organ Donation NHS UK